Vitrine 6
Tobacco - calming & sociable
Description
Valued for the calming effect of nicotine, smoking had spread very rapidly and to all social classes on the European continent since the 17th century. Smoking represented a completely new form of consumption - no stimulant had previously been consumed by inhalation. This is why the early sources speak of "tobacco drinking".
Numerous associated devices emerged: tobacco tins, lighters and pipes of all kinds. In relaxed gentlemen's circles in the "tobacco chamber," as depicted in the painting by Maximilian Neustück, smoking was a matter of course. In addition, people amused themselves with card and board games as well as wine and hot drinks.
Selection
1: Group portrait with four Basel gentlemen
2: Tenon puller
3: Snuff box in the shape of a mouse
4: Round snuff box
5: Glass cup with the so-called pants war (women's quarrel about men's pants)
6: Goblet glass
7: Goblet glass with rider with lance and young woman
8: Carafe with incised basal staff
9: Game board for Trictrac with 26 board pieces
10: Iserlohn tobacco box (medal portrait of Emperor Franz I / Austrian double-headed eagle / medal portrait of Empress Maria Theresa)
11: Brass box with lighter
12: Lighter
13: Ember container with brass lid
14: Pipe with meerschaum head
15: Clay pipe with wooden case
16: Spittoon
17: Candlestick
18: Candlestick
19: Wooden cup
20: Bottle
21: Bottle
22: Light plaster scissors
23: Candlestick
24: Silver wax cord holder
25: Box in the shape of a drum